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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-18

A curious ceremony, recalling to ones
mind the customs of the middle ages,
took place few days ago at Munich.
King Ludwig's heart, which had been
removed from his body previous to the
embalmment of the latter, was placed at
the time in a magnificent silver-gilt urn
specially made for the purpose and filled
with spirits of wine. The I'd inst. all the
bells in the city began to toll, flags were
half-masted, minute guns fred and shops
closed, while the urn containing the i'll
fated monarch's heart, accompanied by
an immense military escort, was borne
in solemn procession through the streets
to the Western Railway station, whence
it was conveyed by special train to. AL
totting, about half an hours ride by rail
from the capital. On arrival there it was
confided to the monks of the ancient
monastery of the place, who have al
ready in their keeping the hearts of a
long line of King Ludwig's predecessors.
London Letter.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-18
oliver Cromwell's Cup.

An interesting heirloom, known as the
solver Cromwell cup" has recently
been the subject of litigation. The cup
in question. was presented by Oliver
Cromwell to his SON law, Gen. Ireton,
and was given by Gen. Ireton to Dame
Whorwood. A descendant of this lady,
one DR.. Whorwood, bequeathed Ito
Lord Sherborne and his heirs my Oliver
Cromwell cup presented to our common
ancestor, Dame Whorwood for an heir
loom." Unfortunately, however, for the
carrying out of the doctors intentions,
the late Lord Sherborne died before the
testator and Mr. Justice North has re-
Gently held the cup did not pass to the
present Lord Sherborne, but that the
legacy lapsed, inasmuch as the the tesla
tor intended to give the cup to the indi-
vidual who at the date of the will was
Lord SISerborne. Mall Gazette.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-18
HUMAN sToMAcHs MAY DIFFER.

Not Good Policy to Experiment Much in
Dieting-A Sensible Rule.
The late DIR. Dio Lewis wrote several
books on dieting which some people read
as they would the gospel truth, following
the exacting rules with fidelity and
precision worthy of better cause. DIR.
Lewis was no doubt the cause of a very
large mortality among his fellow men,
for he laid down rules which were but
marching orders for the grave in many
cases; and yet he had more than an ordi-
narily large following as dietist.
There is a vast amount of downright
folly in the operation called dieting,
especially when it is under the direction
of another. A few years ago some die
tistic crank gave out that oatmeal was
the secret of long life and good digestion,
and the demand for the article became
enormous. OF late it has been discovered
that oatmeal is a positive injury to a
large number of people. DR.. McCosh is
often quoted as a sample of the berefi-
cent effects of oatmeal eating, but the
learned doctor does not live altogether
upon the article, and he has, besides, a
naturally strong and rugged Scottish
constitution.
1t will not do to experiment much in
dieting, nor to take anybody's word
about any system of food. Human
stomachs differ as human faces differ.
Some of them can endure any amount of
imposition. Some of them are as sensi-
tive as an electrical alarm sounded by
rising temperature. A child may fill its
stomach with deadly green apples and
escape without remote touch of pain,
while an adult eating the same danger
GUS stuff would be laid in his coffin in a
few hours. Nothing so tends to produce
chronic melancholy as the continual
contemplation of ones stomach. Some
persons make themselves positively mis-
cradle by worrying about the food they
eat. They deprive themselves of the very
food which nature calls for to follow the
directions OF some cranky person, who
takes perfect delight in counseling peo-
pie to live on bread and water or cracked
wheat, and to abstain from every article
makes one feel good
lhere Is only one sensible rule 10 fol-
low about eating. Each person is the
judge of his own stomach, and that
which he has discovered to be injurious
to himself he should avoid This is the
best system of dieting in the world. 1t
requires simply resolution and determin-
alton. The man or woman who con
tinues to feed upon that which Injuries
n 90 la. L.. 4
her own danger signals in our stomachs,
and we will be perfectly safe if we heed
them. But nature has no part or lot
with the modern starvation dietist.-
Pioneer Press.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-18
The Clam Cure in Connecticut.

In some parts of Switzerland the ma
tives make their fortunes with what
they call the grape cure. The system is
gravely advertised. and resident physi-
clans administer the proper quantities of
fresh grapes. You go to a mountain vii
lage, enjoy the fine scenery and bracing
air, eat grapes for a certain number of
weeks, and are sent home in excellent
health. Enterprising Connecticuters are
proposing to advertise the clam cure
in a similar manner. The medicinal e{-
fects of eating New London CLAIMS have
never been adequately exploited.
The extraordinary recovery of ex-P resi-
dent Arthur, who got well as soon as he
had eaten fried CLANS, is cited as an illus
tration. Most men about town know
the virtue of a cocktail of clam juice
before breakfast. A diet of raw CLAIMS
is one of the best remedies for DYSPEPSIA.
In the clam cure as in all other cures,
it is necessary to have some faith as an
adjunct; but this can be supplied by the
publication of certificates from patients
who have been benefited by a sojourn
on the Connecticut coast.-New York
Star.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-18

Lake Copias, which is situated near
Thebes in Becotia, covers an area of
nearly 100 square miles. The French
company which has been engaged in
digging canal to drain it has almost
finished its work and about two-thirls
of the waters of the lake will be drawn
off within the next two or three months.
Hitherto this inland sea has been chiefly
remarkable for the malaria and fevers
regularly prevailing on its shores during
the hot season. By its drainage, not
only will this evil be permanently re-
moved, but Greece will add to her Terri
tory many thousands of acres of arabic
soil of the greatest fertility. The lake is
fed by the rivers coming down from
Mount Parnassus, whose waters are here
after to be employed, by help of a new
system of canals, in irrigating the sur
rounding country.-New York Trib-
une.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-18
Against the Use of Slang.

A little intentional waywardness grows
into habitual carelessness. We come to
possess a loose, incorrect. inaccurate
style of expressing ourselves. This in
jures our manner Of thinking and per-
verts our taste. Do not give false names
to ideas, else it may finally happen that
you will find it difficult to tell the truth
about them when you would. To keep
our language pure, to keep it exact, to
keep it forcible, to make it mean some
thing, we must put it to no improper
use. And we put it to improper use, for
example, when we take word that
should weigh ton to express an idea
lighter than chaff, when we take word
that should be as sublime as the stars to
stand fcf an idea as commonplace as an
old fence, when from the horror of very
Tophet we borrow a metaphor to apply
to the annoyance of an insect.
The slang expression is the outlaw OF
language. 1t is ruffian. Fortunately
if we but leave it alone it will not modest
us, but go into exile and oblivion. But
there's the rub.-R. G. Craven in Chi
cago Journal.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-18
Criticism of Unwholesome Fiction.

There never was more unwholesome
idea than that every human passion is to
be written about. There are many things
which can not be written about without
doing almost unmitigated mischief. 1t
is not the moral put in at the tag-end of
the book, and which nobody reads, which
shows its moral tendency. 1t is not only
the way in which subject is handled
which does harm or good. 1t is the sub
jects that are handled. The fact that a
nation produces and reads novels written
on foul subjects is fearful test of its
state of mind, and no amount of moral
writing on foul subjects will cure it.
The only possible salvation for it is to
draw its attention elsewhere. 1t must be
educated to something better.-The Spec
tatOr
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-18

Chinese Tea-Drinking in San Francisco.
You drink without meat OF bread at
this place, where / advise you to take
tea. Your food lis fish and candy and
nuts. You will not miss the meat or
bread on the table. And this, / think, is
about the highest praise / can write
down of the delights in spending a
25 cents for a taste of pure and in adulter-
ated tea. The dinner. or sea-" is, as
sure you, made up entirely of fish, fruit
and nuts; and such queer and curious
candied fruits!
You see no Americans here except
those who come tearing up the brass
stairs with very red guide-book and
very bad manners. Some British sea
captains, who know tea, loaf about, but
are very quiet. And SO it rests you here.
You see groups Of Chinese merchants,
or travellers, come in, sit on a table and
take tea as at home exactly. They do
not like chairs, and so they double their
legs in all sorts of ways. They pay
great respect to strangers, and all will
rise and run in a body to help you if
need be, or to give any information.
They always bow gravely and respect
fully as they come in or go out.
Tea is brought in a large cup of the
thinnest and finest blue porcelain. You
may smell of the tea, finger it, tear it
all to bits if you like A man stands by
with brass teakettle of curious old
fashion filled with boiling water. This
is poured on your tea at your pleasure
Then you put little red porcelain lid on
your large cup. Then in about half a
minute you pour the tea from your big
cup into very small and very fine cup
of an egg-shell size and thickness. In
the course of half an hour you may, if
you like, have as many as three cups OF
hot water poured on your tea. But am
told that real good Chinese tea tippler
only has one; takes it strong and straight,
you see.-Joaquin Miller in Chicago
Times
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-18
The Work of Two Painters.

If we allot to each twenty-five years
of painting we shall be within the mark.
A brief calculation will, therefore, show
that if Diaz were indeed the uneoubted
author of all the more or less authenti-
Gated canvasses that bear his signature,
he must have painted between seven and
eight pictures every day, even counting
Sundays and the intercalary days of leap
year. Theodore Rousseau painted only
five each day, and obviously was COM
paratively less diligent artist. 1t is
true that he worked laboriously over the
manipulation of his pictures, but the
compositions have not been thought out
so thoroughly. OF the two, the palm of
diligence must be awarded to Diaz. 1t
is hard to say what the millionaires who
are the happy owners of these treasures
think of the cold facts.-The Forum.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-18

Il want To show you new and wonder
living thing that arrived at the garden
lately" said Head Keeper Byrne, as he
led the way to the snake-house the other
day. The new arrival is about as horri-
BILE and yet as dandified looking fellow
as can be found on the banks of the
Schuylkill. He is in glass case. 1t is
the iguana, aspecies of the lizard family,
and was forwarded to the garden by the
commissioners of fisheries of Massaclru-
sets, with the request that when he dies
his body shall be sent to the Smithsonian
institution at Washington. The iguana
does not look much like dying, although
the only one of its kind that was ever
previously brought to this country died
the day he was brought to the geological
garden, some years ago. His body is a
drab color mixed with black strealSs.
His neck and head are erect; he has a
long tail like an alligator, and four paws
which spread out fiat upon the sand in
his warm cage just like a lizards feet
Sticking out from the center of his back,
from the head all the way down towards
the tail, is row of black bristles, which
stand erect and do not look as if they
would make person comfortable who
would have the temerity to sit down
upon them.
"The most wonderful thing about the
iguana is his appetite" said Mr.. Byrne.
"He eats the most delicate and choicest
f'wers, and white rose is the sweetest
morsel that we have yet found for him.
He eats it with avidity." Mr.. Byrne
disappeared for moment and returned
with a Jacqueminot rose, which he in
serted in the cage The curious looking
reptile lowered his head, and with a
quick motion seized the pretty flower
and swallowed it. It's eyes are intensely
black and snappy, and from around the
mouth there hang curious pieces of skin
looking like plated armor.
The iguana is found in Brazil, and the
epicures of that country are said to highly
prize its flesh for food. 1t is the tooth
some terrapin of South America. When
the iguana is stretched out he will prob
ably measure five feet in length. There
is pool of water in the cage, and he oc-
casionally takes a bath. -Philadelphia
| Times
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-18
Krupp's Big Business.

Alfred Krupp owns probably the larg-
ess business in the world dependent on
one individual. The works within the
town of Essen. Germany, occupy more
than 500 acres, half of which are under
cover. According to a census taken in
September, 1881, the number of hands
employed by Mr.. Krupp was 1905 and
the members of their families 45, 776-
making 65,3Sl persons supported by his
works.-Chicago Tribune.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-18
ApREs Le MARRIAGE.

No woman that ever loved or hated
Has wounded me as you 80 often do,--
AS you will often do, since we are fated
Till death the self-same pathway to pur-
sue.
No woman can hurt me by so saying
Those words that cut and sting one like
lash,
Nor make me old before my time-de-
laying
To grant some eager wish.
You love to dash
From still-wet mouth the chalice of de-
light
And hold instead the bitterest of gall
To lips that, quivering turn from red to
white
But you're so loyal That effaces ALL
Five years ago my tears drenched flower
Upon your breast-you guard it to this
hour Kate Vannah.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-18
The Swallow In Japanese Houses.


In the building of its nest and rearing
of its young the Japanese sw.all,w pays
the highest compliment to and exhibits
the greatest amount of confidence in its
protectors: for. however incredible it may
seem, its habitation is built and its little
family brought up, in the liv n rooms
of Janalese families, and this not only
in the unfrequented parts of the country,
but, as Professor Morse assures us, in the
midst of their largest cities. The pro-
fessor, than whom no more interesting
and acute observer of japanese life ex-
lists, in speaking of these nests, says that
they are not built in any remote part of
the house, but in the principal and often
visited rooms, where the inmates are the
busiest about the household affairs. He
adds that the children take great delight
in watching the nests in process of con-
struction and in the rearing and educa-
ton of the young birds afterward. AS
soon as nest is fairly begun, some
member of the household puts up neat
little shelf beneath it to prevent litter on
the floor, and the bird, accepting this as
q locus in quo," returns, year after
year, to rebuild or repair and reoccupy
the old nest in the same place.
American.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-18
Tho Snail Harvest in France.

The snail harvest has just begun in
France. The poor mans oyster" is SO
appreciated that Paris alone consumes
some forty nine tons daily, the best kind
coming from Grenoble or Bergundy
The finest specimens are carefully reared
in an escargctiere, or snail park, such as
the poor Capuchin monks planned in by
gone days at Colmar and Weinbach,
when they had no money to buy food,
and so cultivated snails.' But the ma
jority are collected by the vine dressers
in the evening from the stone heaps,
where the snails have assembled to en-
Joy the dew.-Chicago Herald.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-18
Philosophy About lightning.

A case of serious illness from fright in
q thunderstorm has been reported
There's little philosophy about light
ming which, if everybody could have
perfect faith in, would save considerable
mental pain. 1t is the certain fact that
person who is struck by lightning
never feels any pain. He hasn't time to
think what killed him. If he is consc-
Gus at all it is after he has found him
self awake in another world. There is
no use in any one getting scared when
he hears the crash or sees the flash. He
is safe for that time at least, because if
the bolt is aimed at him he has no oc
casion for the use of either his ears or
his eyes.-North American.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-18
The white Race. Moving Forward.

The white races are urged forward by
an irresistible spur over which they have
no control. The increase of the yellow
race. which once must have ben in
creaibly fast, has stopped, and that of
the dark races of India, which for centu-
ries has been amazing, is being checked
by recurrent famines; bus that of white
people goes on so fast that the transport
of huge army every year across the
Atlantic makes no impression on their
numbers, and at their present rate of in
crease they will in 1894 be a thousand
millions. Commercial Ga
zette
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-18

The Fascination of Mt. washinton.
1t was the Scotch country parson, A.
X. Fl. B., who said that he would not
give much for the man who could not
sit still for half an hour thinking upon
nothing. 1t was Agassiz who honored
the man who could sit down to prob
lem in natural history and keep at it I'M
til he had found out all he could about
1t. 1t is this power that one needs at
Mt. Washington. You can ramble over
these hills as the channels skips over the
peaks of the Alps, but you will have in
many instances only your labor for your
pains. l have been astonished to find
that some of the best walkers among the
mountains really knew very little about
them. They could give you the material
facts-just what you didn't want to know
but could not at all enter into the real
life of the mountains, as the mind and
heart are related to them.
Some people are SO susceptible to inn
pressions that they can take in the glory
of the view from Mount Washington at
glance; but l am more and more in
clined to think that the enjoyment of
nature in these majestic places, where
the greater glory of the world is revealed,
is not in large measure for the swift OBJ
server. They have to be won as women
are won, by what you yourself give
them, until, as with tho woman and the
man, SO with the mountain and the hui
man being, the twain have become in a
sense one before they reveal
themselves to you. The fascina-
ton of Mount Washington is not
felt at once. The first view from the
summit is disappointing. Ruskin says
that II you wish to get the best view of
the landscape, you should not stand on
the top of an eminence, but half way
down one of its sides. You need some
thing relative, and the mind can not
take in the whole of the horizon at a
glance.-Mt. Washington Cor. Boston
Herald.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-18

Theories Concerning the Homing Pigeon.
The much discussed question of the
homing Of the pigeon, or, as the French
term it. or-ntation, does not seem diff
cult to meet to one who has much to do
with the birds. There are, however. as
many theories advanced az there are sci
entists who have studied it, One as
cribes it to sense of which we are not
cognizant AS if the senses were six, and
man had knowledge of but five of them
Another finds path for the birds in the
magnetic currents of heat and cold.
Some rank the impulse with the instinct
of the migratory bird, while Others
ascribe the performance to sight,
and others again to luck and
chance. The facts do not bear out
any of these theories. The atmospheric
currents may aid, but it is by their We
locity and direction, not their tempera-
ture, and they hinder as often. The
magnetic currents may affect, but it is
in stimulating and intensifying, or. as
they are adverse, in depressing. 1t is
and unerring. Guided by instinct, the
bird would not go astray, and the ele-
ment of uncertainty upon which the
sport depends would be lost. The homing
pigeon not only errs, but shows indie
cision. Thus its action is voluntary and
the result of sort of reflection, and it is
as the premises of which it takes cogni-
nance are imperfect or false that its ao-
ton Is in error.
The sight of the homing pigeon is only
limited by the dip of the horizon and the
altitude at which it can sustain itself in
the air. Its memory exceeds human
understanding. Thus, bird will rise
from a basket and be over a strange
place only long enough togo away from
it, but, if it itself to DO lost, is injured.
or is unable to proceed, it will return to
the place of the start.-E. s. Storrs in
The Century.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-18
Foreign and American Cemeteries

do not think that either Pere l.
Chase or Kensal Green are as natural.
beautiful as Greenwood in Brooklyn.
Laurel Hill at Philadelphia, Bellefon-
tame at st. Louis, or Mount Auburn in
Boston, but they are superior in artifi-
cial embellishments. In the United States
where splendid fruit trees and shrub
berry of all descriptions are so abundant,
it is the easiest thing in nature to con-
vert the churchyard of the smallest town
into an attractive object without great
expense. In England and in France the
the hand of affection plants cypress and
willow over tho grave and riches build
the proudest marble that art can erect.
| do not know why wealth should place
over our tombs mark of any sort. A
tomb is one of the shallowest ideas of
our finite conceptions.-London Cor.
Boston Herald.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-18
The First written senatorial Speech.

The First Written Senatorial Speech.
The first written speech read in the
United States senate was by the Hon. Isaac
Hill of New HAM, Sire, firm supporter
of Gen. jackson. When about half
through he suddenly lost the thread of
his discourse and stopped, evidently en-
barrassed. His wife, who sat in the gal
lery almost directly over him, compre-
hended the situation, and said, i'll voice
heard all over the senate chamber: Mr..
Hill, you've turned over two leaves at
once" He Immediately corrected his
mistake and proceeded with his remarks
amid roar of laughter.-Ben: Perley
POOre
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-18

Age does not alter color blindness, for
one born so dies so. No race has been
proven exempt, nor does civilization or
education make particle of difference
in the frequency of its occurrence.
Social condition also has nothing to do
with its presence or absence. The defect
may exist in one eye only. All color
blind persons are. exceptionally sensitive
to light and shade.-Lithographer and
Printers.